A California court ordered the termination of two Redwoods in order to eliminate the shade cast upon a neighbor's solar panel.

Besides the fact that living trees (Redwoods!) must be sacrificed for solar energy, it strikes me odd that in this case there may be little to be gained. The electric power needed to cool a house that is not shaded probably can not be generated by the Solar panels. A house becomes much hotter without shade. This may not be true in this case since the picture shows a large portion of the roof is covered by the panels that do provide shade themselves. I would be curious how much more net energy savings is gained by the chainsaw execution, if any.

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Lighten up! This is a stellar board! Author: duh.

"The Sun, with all the planets revolving around it, and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as though it had nothing else in the universe to do..." Author: Galileo supposedly.